A 7-Year-Old Boy, Resistance fighter killed by Israeli occupation forces in Dair El-Balah, Gaza Strip

Israeli Army Kills Palestinian Child south of Gaza

Gaza, February 19, 2008, (RNA)-

Israeli occupation forces killed a 7-year-old Palestinian child Tuesday in the city of Dair El-Balah, south of Gaza.

Hospital sources told RNA that Mohammed Abu Al-Sha'ar, 7, was killed after having been shot in the head, and several others wounded during the Israeli incursion into Dair El-Balah.

Witnesses told RNA reporter that Israeli tanks thrust into Al-Ja'afarawi neighborhood, east of Dair El-Balah, amid intensive fire.

Resistance fighter killed in clashes with Israeli occupation forces in Gaza Strip

Date: 19 / 02 / 2008 Time: 10:43
Gaza – Ma'an –

A 25-year-old resistance fighter was shot dead during clashes with Israeli occupation forces, east of Dair El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday, Palestinian medical sources said.

Mu'awiyya Hassanain, head of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian ministry of health told our correspondent that fighter Ismail Jadallah was taken to Al-Aqsa Martyr's Hospital in Dir El-Balah.

The National Resistance Brigades, the military wing of the Democratic Front, confirmed that Jadallah was one of their members and he was killed during armed clashes with Israeli forces.

Meanwhile, the National Resistance Brigades and the Abu Rish Brigades, the military wing of Fatah, claimed they clashed with an Israeli special force east of the Kisufim Israeli military base. They said they attacked the force, firing bullets and homemade bombs on Tuesday at dawn.

The Brigades said in a statement that the Israeli forces acknowledged they had come under rocket attack and that clashes had taken place, resulting in the death of a member of the National Resistance Brigades.

Separately, the An-Nasser Brigades, the military wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for attacking the Israeli military base of Nahal 'Oz, east of Gaza City, with four homemade projectiles on Monday evening.

Palestinian child "seriously injured" by Israeli fire in Gaza Strip

Date: 19 / 02 / 2008 Time: 17:38
Gaza – Ma'an –

A Palestinian child named Tamir Abu Sha'ar was hit by a stray gunshot from Israeli soldiers in east of Dair El-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on Tuesday.

Muawiya Hassanain, the director of ambulance and emergency services in the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza said the child was seriously injured and was hospitalized in the El-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in Dair El-Balah.

Separately, two other Palestinians have been injured after Israeli forces began a limited incursion in Abasan, near the city of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip. They were hospitalized in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Hassanain said.

A Palestinian fighter shot dead by the Israeli occupation army in central Gaza

Tuesday February 19, 2008 10:54 by Rami Almeghari - IMEMC & Agencies

A Palestinian resistance fighter of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine's armed wing, was shot dead and another was wounded on central Gaza-Israel border line early on Tuesday.

Medical sources identified the killed as Ismail Jadallah as the Democratic Front confirmed he was killed during an armed clash with the Israeli occupation soldiers, manning the border line.

In a statement, faxed to press, the democratic front and the Abu Errish brigades, an offshoot of Fatah party of President Abbas, exchanged gunfire and hand grenades with the Israeli forces, as the said fighter was shot dead while planting a roadside bomb.

In the meantime, the Salah Eldin brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Resistance Committees, claimed responsibility for firing four homemade shells onto the Nahal Auz Israeli military checkpoint, to the east of Gaza city.

A brigades' statement read that this attack is a part of what the brigades termed ' messages of hell', in retaliation to the Israeli army killing of Amer Qarmout, a senior leader of the Salahuddin brigades, several days ago.

Israeli prime minister, Ehud Olmert, gave his army this week a free hand to strike heavily launchers of homemade shells, especially those of the ruling Hamas.

The Israeli army has been imposing a strict closure on the Gaza Strip since Hamas has taken over the coastal region in June of last year.

Media reports suggest that at least 200 Palestinians, including dozens of civilians, have been killed by the Israeli army over the past three months, while two Israelis have been killed due to homemade shells fire in the same period.

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